The popular Internet destination MySpace has won an almost quarter-billion-dollar damage judgment against a notorious spammer known as the "Spam King."
A federal judge in Los Angeles issued the award when Sanford Wallace and associate Walter Rines failed to show up for a court hearing. MySpace sued under the federal anti-spam law that provides $100 in damages for each violation and triples that if the violation is on purpose.
Wallace and Rines were accused of sending more than 730,000 messages to MySpace members as fake friends.
The messages recommended "cool" sites that turned out to be money-making schemes selling things like ring tones.
MySpace says the spamming ate up valuable space and angered members.
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